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[Dovecot] Looking to upgrade from .99.14 to 1.0alpha5
by Erik Dasque 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Hi all, I was looking to upgrade my dovecot .99.14 installation to 1.0alpha5 today and bumped into an issue. My setup is on Mac OS X 10.4 and I am using After reading http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot , I created a default dovecot.conf file with the following information grabbed from my prior installation: Snow:~ ed$ grep -v '^ *#' /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf|grep -v ^$ ssl_disable = yes login = imap login = pop3 auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam login auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes So as you can see, I use passwd and pam as my authentication db. So I copied over the dovecot-example.conf and as far as I know the only modifications I needed to make to the default file were to disable ssl and set the verbose and debug auth. Keep in mind that passwd/pam db methods work with .99.14 but with 1.0alpha5, I get the following: Jan 14 15:55:16 Snow dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha5 starting up Jan 14 15:58:15 Snow dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AGVkAGFic2ludGhlMzM= Jan 14 15:58:15 Snow dovecot: auth(default): pam(ed,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Jan 14 15:58:15 Snow dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=ed Jan 14 15:58:21 Snow dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AGVkAGFic2ludGhlMzM= Jan 14 15:58:21 Snow dovecot: auth(default): pam(ed,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Jan 14 15:58:21 Snow dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 2 user=ed and so on and so forth. Any idea what could be causing this or how to debug this further ? Thanks in advance, Erik PS: my pam setup for dovecot is: Snow:~ ed$ more /etc/pam.d/dovecot auth required pam_unix.so nullok account required pam_unix.so

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[Dovecot] Occasional errors opening email folder in SquirrelMail
by Jonathan 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Every once in a while I get this [1] error when trying to open a mail folder in SquirrelMail. I don't know enough about IMAP to tell if it is a SquirrelMail or a Dovecot issue. I also get this [2] error message every time I try to send an email. The email goes through but there is no copy in the Sent folder. If there is some kind of logging I can enable that would help with this please let me know. [1] ERROR: Bad or malformed request. Query: FETCH (FLAGS UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Date To Cc >From Subject X-Priority Importance Priority Content-Type)]) Server responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid arguments. [2] ERROR: Bad or malformed request. Server responded: Error in IMAP command APPEND: Thank you, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] How long to 1.0?
by Fredrik Tolf 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Hi! I'm wondering how close Dovecot can be said to be to 1.0 "Final". How stable can the alpha branch be said to be? I was browsing around the Dovecot homepage, but I couldn't find any answer to this question. I hope it hasn't been asked (too many times) before. Fredrik Tolf

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[Dovecot] Corrupted index files
by Andy Cravens 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

I'm using alpha 5 and I'm getting "Corrupted index cache files" errors on one user's account. I found several posts in the mail archives on this subject and concluded from the responses that it's not a serious problem because Dovecot can deal with it. I deleted the index files and they were recreated but the error persists. The end user did not notice any problem but it makes me nervous. Is this something I should be concerned about? dovecot: Jan 12 10:22:06 Error: imap(username): Corrupted index cache file /export/home/username/mail/dovecot.index.cache: Duplicated field in header: hdr.CONTENT-TYPE dovecot: Jan 12 14:31:08 Error: imap(username): Corrupted index cache file /export/home/username/mail/.syslog_analyzer/dovecot.index.cache: Duplicated field in header: hdr.CONTENT-TYPE dovecot: Jan 12 14:43:56 Error: imap(username): Corrupted index cache file /export/home/username/mail/.gl3_ip_allocation/dovecot.index.cache: Duplicated field in header: hdr.CONTENT-TYPE By the way... is there a search function somewhere for searching the mailing list archives? I ended up selecting one month at a time and searching through the thread titles with my browser's "find" button. -- Andy

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[Dovecot] 20060114 snapshot compilation warnings
by Chris Wakelin 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Timo, I've noticed a couple of extra compilation errors in last night's snapshot compared to the snapshot I downloaded on Tuesday, probably due to the int -> bool change :- (gcc 3.3.2 on Solaris 8) mbox-sync.c: In function `mbox_sync': mbox-sync.c:1568: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type index-search.c: In function `search_index_arg': index-search.c:131: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type quota-storage.c: In function `quota_check': quota-storage.c:114: warning: passing arg 3 of `quota_try_alloc' from incompatible pointer type together with a few "unused parameter/variable" errors which were there before. I also needed to rewrite half my internal patches :) but that shouldn't have made any difference (they certainly don't involve those files). Best Wishes, Chris -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] How can I archive maildir?
by Neal Becker 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Does anyone have a suggestion how to archive old maildir format mail?

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Fwd: Re: [Dovecot] Compile problem on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE
by Peter Losher 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

On Friday 30 December 2005 12:54 pm, Brad wrote: > Why would you install a port of something that comes with > the base OS, especially MIT Kerb5? While Krb5 is included in FreeBSD, it's Heimdal implementation, not MIT's, and some of us have valid reasons for running MIT Krb5 instead and the API's are different between the two. Best Wishes - Peter -- [ http://www.plosh.net/ ] - "Earth Halted: Please reboot to continue"

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[Dovecot] Password changing?
by john 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hey all, new user to the dovecot mailing list but I promise, this is a neat question. Is it possible to request users change their email password through their email client? I'm currently authenticating email logins to my dovecot server through SSL, with each users password checked against their /etc/passwd password. So far, thunderbird will ask for the users new password (forced change at first logon,) but it fails to change the users password through the encrypted email connection. Any assistance would be gladly appreciated. Getting past this hurdle means i can eliminate one more bill gates server/money hole with a power button. P.S. If anyone isnt using this "feature" to get users to set their email password, how might i ask are you getting users to change their email password to dovecot? --John

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[Dovecot] [BUG] Thread command
by Sebastjan Trepca 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hi, while implementing thread support in our mail application I found a bug which kills IMAP(alpha5, SUSE 10) process... These are the commands: x OK Logged in. x select INBOX * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk Junk $Forwarded Spam) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk Junk $Forwarded Spam \*)] Flags permitted. * 2280 EXISTS * 1 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 473] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1136386397] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 2319] Predicted next UID x OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. x uid thread references utf8 (SUBJECT "locking") * THREAD (2289 2307) * 2281 EXISTS * 1 RECENT x OK Thread completed. x UID THREAD REFERENCES UTF8 (SUBJECT 'locking') Connection closed by foreign host. This is the code dump: (gdb) bt full #0 0xdededede in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0x08060127 in mail_thread_deinit (ctx=0x80c0120) at imap-thread.c:100 No locals. #2 0x080611e2 in imap_thread (cmd=0x80c5c34, charset=0x80c5f48 "UTF8", args=0x80ea980, type=MAIL_THREAD_REFERENCES) at imap-thread.c:156 wanted_headers = {0x80b6645 "message-id", 0x80b2947 "in-reply-to", 0x80b2953 "references", 0x80b1978 "subject", 0x0} client = (struct client *) 0x80c5bf0 headers_ctx = (struct mailbox_header_lookup_ctx *) 0x80eb188 ctx = (struct thread_context *) 0x80c0120 mail = (struct mail *) 0x80ced28 ret = 0 #3 0x080598b5 in cmd_thread (cmd=0x80c5c34) at cmd-thread.c:66 client = (struct client *) 0x80c5bf0 sargs = <value optimized out> args = (struct imap_arg *) 0x80c5ea0 args_count = <value optimized out> pool = 0x80ea930 error = <value optimized out> charset = 0x80c5f48 "UTF8" str = 0x80c5f38 "REFERENCES" #4 0x0805a271 in _client_input (context=0x80c5bf0) at client.c:338 cmd = (struct client_command_context *) 0x80c5c34 ret = <value optimized out> #5 0x080a91c8 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80c49b0) at ioloop-epoll.c :250 ctx = <value optimized out> event = (struct epoll_event *) 0x80c4a00 io = (struct io *) 0x80c5da8 tv = {tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = 999991} t_id = 2 msecs = <value optimized out> ret = 0 i = 0 call = <value optimized out> #6 0x080a881b in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80c49b0) at ioloop.c:230 No locals. #7 0x080617e4 in main (argc=3, argv=0xbfa6e7d4, envp=0xbfa6e7e4) at main.c :235 No locals. Hope this is enough. Sebastjan

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[Dovecot] Errors in /var/log/maillog and /var/log/dovecot.log
by Li Cai 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

I am trying to migrate from UW imap to dovecot. OS: RHEL 3 X86 MTA: Postfix Auth: PAM (NIS server) Most of the users are fine, but I have some users have problems: " Jan 14 09:18:42 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=X.X.X.X, lip=X.X.X.X, TLS " This happens on dovecot version dovecot-1.0.alpha5-1 and dovecot-0.99.11-1 If anyone else has met such problem? Thanks Li

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[Dovecot] "Discarding bogus continuation" message in pine
by Jesse Chan-Norris 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Running 1.0alpha5 (though I've been having this problem for the past couple of versions), and using mbox for the mailboxes. After I've read my mail using Apple's Mail.app (or Thunderbird) and take it offline, when I try to open the INBOX (or any mailbox) with pine, I get the following message (in pine): [Discarding bogus continuation in msg 1: $Forwarded NonJunk] Quitting and re-running pine does not bring up this message again, and it looks like it's getting confused by the internal mbox message's X-IMAP line: X-IMAP: 1076598957 0000257269 NotJunk JunkRecorded $NotJunk $Junk Junk \ Forwarded $Forwarded NonJunk The "$Forwarded NonJunk" part is the only part of that line that is on a new line, and it gets written out like that after I've read mail using an IMAP client, leading me to believe that pine doesn't know how to handle the newline in the X-IMAP line. I don't know if this is a Dovecot, Mail.app, or pine problem, but I never saw this error in UW-IMAP. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! jcn

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[Dovecot] Upgrade question
by Anne Wilson 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

I have 0.99.14 installed. I've downloaded the latest version. Does it install over the old one, in parallel, or need an uninstall of the old one? Anne

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[Dovecot] compiling Dovecot CVS version, 1 problem, 1 wish, 3 questions
by Steffen Kaiser 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hello, today I checked out a new copy of Dovecot (and LDA) from CVS: File: ChangeLog Status: Up-to-date Working revision: 1.2765 Repository revision: 1.2765 /home/cvs/dovecot/ChangeLog,v I could compile them, but my findings follow: - the problem: I copied dovecot-lda below CVS_ROOT/dovecot, the first make attempt failed with this fatal error: make[3]: Entering directory `/var/autofs/fb02/prgdist/dovecot/dovecot/dovecot-lda/src/libsieve' /bin/sh ../../ylwrap `test -f 'addr.y' || echo './'`addr.y y.tab.c addr.c y.tab.h addr.h y.output addr.output -- bison -y -d -p addr ../../ylwrap: ../../ylwrap: No such file or directory the "ylwrap" is actually located in the Dovecot directory, hence, one directory up, so running ln -s ../ylwrap . in CVS_ROOT/dovecot/dovecot-lda fixed the problem. - the wish: It would be nice, if one could compile dovecot-lda right in the CVS locations without the need to give any option, e.g. the default "dovecot" path could be "../dovecot". - the questions: running ./autogen.sh results in: configure.in:1562: required file `./config.h.in' not found SUBDIRS: variable `DELIVER' is used but `DELIVER' is undefined ^^ Maybe the 2nd error results in that I passed "--without-deliver" to ./configure? running ./configure results in: checking for shared library run path origin... ./config.rpath: ./config.rpath: No such file or directory done running dovecot-lda/autogen.sh results in: configure.in:4: required file `./lda-config.h.in' not found Neither of these error messages prevent to built Dovecot, but they does not look "correct". Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser

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[Dovecot] dovecot+ldap no auth...
by Joaquim Petiz 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Dear sirs, In the configuration of Dovecot I can´t get autentication of the users. My work environment is: OpenBSD 3.8 Postfix 2.2.5 (instaled thru ports with ldap and sasl support) Opendap 2.2.27 (instaled thru ports with sasl support) Dovecot 0.99.14 (instaled thru source with ldap support) I have two domains in ldap, the postfix is just autenticating in ldap (sending e-mails to users of 2 ldap domains), I have one vmail user and one vmail group with uid e gid 800 to e-mail delivery and one dovecot user for dovecot itself. The Dovecot is not autenticating: # telnet localhost 143 * OK dovecot ready 0 login user(a)domain.com password 0 NO Authentication failed. ldap´s LOGS: Jan 11 13:48:56 ldap slapd[6397]: conn=6 op=4 SRCH base="cn=dovecot,o=organization,c=com" scope=2 deref=0 filter="(&(objectClass=qmailUser)(mail=user(a)domain.com))" Jan 11 13:48:56 ldap slapd[6397]: conn=6 op=4 SRCH attr=uid userPassword Jan 11 13:48:56 ldap slapd[6397]: conn=6 op=4 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=32 nentries=0 text= my slapd.conf: include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/qmail.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/openldap.schema pidfile /var/run/slapd/slapd.pid argsfile /var/run/slapd/slapd.args access to dn.base="" by * read access to attr=userPassword by dn="uid=vmail,o=organization,c=com" read by dn="cn=dovecot,o=organization,c=com" read by anonymous auth by self write by * none database ldbm checkpoint 1024 5 cachesize 10000 suffix "o=organization,c=com" rootdn "cn=administrator,o=organization,c=com" rootpw {CRYPT}xxxxxxxxxxx directory /var/openldap-data index objectClass eq my user.ldif dn: cn=user,ou=domain1.com,o=organization,c=com cn: user ou: domain1.com sn: user objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: qmailUser homeDirectory: /var/vmail/domains/domain1.com/user mail: user(a)domain1.com mailHost: mail.domains.com mailQuotaSize: 0 mailQuotaCount: 0 deliveryMode: normal uid: user uidNumber: 2000 gidNumber: 2000 accountStatus: active userPassword: {CRYPT}xxxxxxxxxxxx mailMessageStore: domain1.com/user mailAlternateAddress: user(a)domain1.com my dovecot.conf protocols = imap imap_listen = *:143 ssl_disable = yes login_dir = /var/dovecot/login login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user = dovecot first_valid_uid = 800 last_valid_uid = 800 first_valid_gid = 800 last_valid_gid = 800 valid_chroot_dirs = /var/vmail/domains/ default_mail_env = mbox:/var/vmail/domains/%d/%u/Maildir auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf My dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = localhost dn = uid=dovecot,o=organization,c=com dnpass = password ldap_version = 3 base = o=organization,c=com deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber user_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(mail=%u)) pass_attrs = uid,userPassword pass_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(mail=%u)) default_pass_scheme = CRYPT user_global_uid = 800 user_global_gid = 800 []'s

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[Dovecot] New Dovecot installation and OE not POPing problems
by techlist06 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Greetings: Recently I converted my mailserver to Postfix with some local accounts being accessed via Dovecot and POP3S. The clients are OE. The users are reporting that they aren't getting their messages. In the past with my old (IW?) POP server, I just used mail -f /var/spool/user and deleted the "DO NOT DELETE THIS MESSAGE...." message #1 and this cleared any problems with messages being out of sync on what had and had not been downloaded, etc. With Dovecot, I don't know how to "bump" the mailbox to get it "reset" so that OE will download the messages again, and/or get them if it hasn't already. Is this possible? Thanks very much for the time to help, Scott

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[Dovecot] Auth protocol and Perl
by Allan Joergensen 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hi, does anyone have at working Perl example of how to use the auth protocol with Perl (I'm planing on making a dovecot auth plugin for qpsmtpd but it would a lot easier to reuse somebody elses code :)) tia, -- Allan Joergensen - http://nowhere.dk/ "All right, so it's impossible. How long will it take?"

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[Dovecot] ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server.
by Paul Matthews 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

hi there, i'm trying to setup dovecot with squirrel mail at the moment and i'm getting this error message ERROR: ERROR : Could not complete request. Query: CREATE "Sent" Reason Given: Permission denied ERROR: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: SELECT "INBOX" can someone tell me what this means? and what folders i have to change the permissions on? this is out of my /etc/dovecot.conf file if it helps default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%u:mbox:~/mail/

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[Dovecot] Patch: More of kqueue() support.
by Vaclav Haisman 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hi, the attached patch contains these changes: 2005-12-15 22:18 Vaclav Haisman <v.haisman(a)sh.cvut.cz> * src/lib/ioloop-kqueue.c: Fix IO_ERROR behaviour. * src/lib/ioloop-notify-kqueue.c: New file. * configure.in: Improve kqueue detection and handling. Cleanup. The configure.in changes that are not related to kqueue are there to make autoconf 2.59, automake 1.9.6 and libtool 1.5.20 are happy. The directory change notification is not really well tested because Dovecot doesn't seem to use it that much. As per Brad's request I have changed all occurrences of FreeBSD to just BSD. Vaclav Haisman

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Re: [Dovecot] Message read not sticking with Apple Mail / dovecot 1.0alpha5
by Andy Cravens 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Yes... I'm seeing this with the Apple mail client on Tiger. Our server is alpha 5/maildir/solaris 9/75 users. The apple user with the problem typically has more that one client open. He tends to leave his home PC connected when he comes in to work. He was able to resolve the last occurrence by closing all clients and resynching his mailboxes. We've also seen this problem on Solaris 9 running Mozilla 1.7.2 and Windows XP running outlook and evolution. These other clients have not seen a problem in over a month. The Apple user has problem every week. One interesting observation on this problem is that it will go away by itself given enough time. It seems that after a few hours to a full day it will go away. -- Andy Michael Stevens wrote: > Hi. > > I'm getting very weird behaviour with Apple Mail on Tiger and > 1.0alpha5 (with Timo's patch for the bug I saw). > > I can read a mail, see Apple Mail flag it as read, quit, come back > later, and find the mail is marked unread again. It seems to also > happen sometimes when I switch folders or get new mail. > > I've not worked out what's triggering it yet. Anyone seen anything > like this? > > Michael > >

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[Dovecot] reply-to address of the list
by Udo Rader 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi, is there a chance to alter the list behaviour to not use the sender address of a posting in the reply-to field but dovecot(a)dovecot.org instead? That way one has to either use "reply to all" in the MUA or manually enter dovecot(a)dovecot.org in any replies. And a "reply to all" duplicates postings because the posting once goes to the list and once to the original poster, that get's the reply twice then. Or maybe I am missing something ... :-) Udo BestSolution.at GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at

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[Dovecot] removing folders doesn't always work
by William Astle 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

I've been running dovecot for a while now. I've got 1.0alpha5 running on a Slackware linux 10.2 system (i386). My system is using mbox format which means you can't have folders that contain both folders and messages. What I'm seeing is that removing folders doesn't always work. From what I can tell, it only affects folders that contain folders. Dovecot doesn't remove the directory from the server when the folder is removed which means it just keeps coming back. It's easy to duplicate this. Just create a folder that is allowed to contain folders only. You will see a directory created on the server. Then remove the folder. The directory will still be on the server, even if it is empty (i.e. no dovecot index files in it). Of course, most people create folders and never delete them, but occasionally it's useful to do so. For the record, removing folders that contain messages (mbox files) works. -- William Astle Lexicom Ltd. Phone: +1-403-262-6610 Long Distance: 1-877-426-6277 Email: astle(a)lexi.net

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Re: [Dovecot] Message read not sticking with Apple Mail / dovecot 1.0alpha5
by Hauke Fath 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Am 13.01.2006 um 11:17 Uhr +0000 schrieb Michael Stevens: >I can read a mail, see Apple Mail flag it as read, quit, come back >later, and find the mail is marked unread again. It seems to also >happen sometimes when I switch folders or get new mail. > >I've not worked out what's triggering it yet. Anyone seen anything >like this? Same here - Eudora on MacOS 10.4, and Mozilla on NetBSD 3. It is not strictly repeatable, but happens frequently. hauke -- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath \ / No HTML/RTF in email Institut für Nachrichtentechnik X No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt / \ Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-3281

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[Dovecot] dovecot-ldap.conf for usernames/homes/UID/GID
by Paul Matthews 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

hi there, Im getting such a headache today, Ive added myself to three mailing lists trying to figure this out, okay here it goes. Ive got a Fedora Core 4 box running dovecot imap, squirrel mail, postfix, samba/winbind. Im running winbind to authenticate against Active Directory, Ive edited my /etc/pam.d/dovecot pam module so to let my users login with there Active directory password, but squirrel mail wont let them I think, let me stress the term, think is has something to do with there home directories, because I have some local users as well, they can login no issues & my users with the same usernames on unix and ADS can login with there ADS passwords Now Im looking at the dovecot webmin module and I see that Data source for users, homes and Ids is set to use Standard unix username database. There is now option of PAM like in Password authentication source. Although I do see LDAP, using config file. Can I set that to query Active directory ldap database and go there Data source for users, homes and Ids? If I can can someone tell me how to, if not can someone tell me what I need to do? Here is what I have so far with my /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = senior-server.school.cathedral.qld.edu.au:389 dn = cn=administrator,cn=users,dc=school,dc=cathedral,dc=qld,dc=edu,dc=au dnpass = wwvH@cs ldap_version = 3 base = dc=school,dc=cathedral,dc=qld,dc=edu,dc=au deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(cn=%u)) pass_attrs = uid,userPassword pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) CRYPT default_pass_scheme = CRYPT user_global_uid = 100 user_global_gid = 100

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[Dovecot] QUOTA Imap Extension
by Brady Wetherington 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi - long time lurker, very rare poster I understand Dovecot's support for mbox quotas is - well, not quite there yet. But I actually am not asking about that. I use vpopmail and qmail and Maildirs and was wondering about the QUOTA imap extension, which allows IMAP clients to query their quota settings. The reason I need to know about this is that I have a mailserver with a chunk of clients and their mail stores are getting large. And starting to exhaust my storage. I could just throw more storage at it - but they're not paying me for that level of storage, so I need to quota them. And my main source of business is one particular consulting company, so I pretty much have to do what they say, within reason, and they said, "Okay, you can quota everyone, so long as they can at least find out what their quota is in Webmail..." Which is pretty reasonable - quota'ing people and then not letting them know how close to their quota they are seems cruel, especially with the meager IQ's of my particular set of clients. Some research on my part has determined that there's an RFC for a QUOTA extension to IMAP, and there are plugins for my webmail program (Squirrelmail) which can display the user's quota usage there. Also, some mail clients are smart enough to also query the QUOTA extensions and let the user know how close they are to their max quota usage. I'm also planning a pretty decent-sized technology transition in the near future (switching to a shared-storage system with two servers, etc, etc), and I could be convinced to perhaps try and change my quotaing system at the same time - for instance, switching to filesystem quotas instead of vpopmail quotas, if that will help. The scary possibility that I guess I have to prepare myself for is that dovecot Just Doesn't Do It, and I need to figure out some other way of informing the clients of their quota usage - possibly a script that goes and recurses through maildirs and sends little emails if users are at a certain percentage of their actual usage, or something...I'm certainly not looking forward to writing that, but it's not a fate worse than death...

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[Dovecot] were are my e-mails?
by Paul Matthews 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

hi there, i seam to have pretty much everything under control at the moment other than the ability to recieve email's ... i can send them though and i know they get there because i can login into webmin and look in my user's mail boxes and see the e-mails, but for some reason i can retrive them using squirrel mail, can someone tell me why?

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[Dovecot] pop3 CAPA STLS and stupid clients
by Marten Lehmann 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hello, is it possible to disable the announcment of STLS in the CAPA-command for the pop3-daemon? I want to support pop3s, but only at port 995, not through the STLS on port 110. The reason for this is that some clients have problems with this and strange errors appear (e.g. older imap-libs) although they don't seem to have a problem with pop3s through port 995. Regards Marten

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Re: [Dovecot] PAM Authentication issues with Dovecot
by david.kolts＠entouch.net 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

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[Dovecot] IMAP subscriptions - how, for what and why?
by Tom Alsberg 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Again, not a Dovecot issua - but can someone clarify better what IMAP subscriptions (SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE/LSUB) are and what they are used for? I've seen a few times in Microsoft mail clients, the options to subscribe to folders and to "show only subscribed folders". I haven't played much with them, though. But what's the actual point? Except for being returned in the list of LSUB, what else changes when doing a SUBSCRIBE to a mailbox? Are subscriptions supposed to be remembered by the server outside of the context of a session (so a client that connects to the server at some point and authenticates will already see in LSUB what a possibly other client has subscribed to in a previous session)? Clarifications appreciated, regards, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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Re: [Dovecot] PAM Authentication issues with Dovecot
by david.kolts＠entouch.net 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

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[Dovecot] PAM Authentication issues with Dovecot
by david.kolts＠entouch.net 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

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[Dovecot] Outlook Express / Namespaces
by Matthias Rieber 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hi, I'm planning to switch from courier-imap to dovecot. Everythings seems fine. I adjust the namespaces to avoid client side changes. This works with Thunderbird, but Outlook Express seems to have problmes with the path "INBOX.", that I've configured in the client settings. I can remove that path, but the folders will be sorted under the inbox. Is there something that I've done wrong? I'm using dovecot 1.0alpha5 matthias

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda: problems compiling
by nospam 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

I am trying to compile the dovecot lda and running into some problems. (compiling most recent version on Fedora core 4). I was able to compile the dovecot imap server just fine. However .. when I try to run configure in the lda package (after running autogen) it gets stuck on this line : + eval 'sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-1.sed | sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-2.sed | sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-3.sed' ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-1.sed ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-2.sed ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-3.sed Basically it is getting stuck on the sed portion in config.status. Anyone run into this problem before ?

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[Dovecot] Authentication failure - unknown user
by Anne Wilson 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

I'm trying to set up a temporary mailserver using Debian Sarge and Dovecot 1.0 with maildir format. My only previous experience has been on a simple imap server with mbox format. I have read the wiki documentation and searched the archives, but can't tie down my problem. The log tells me Info: passwd-file(anne) : unknown user. I have set auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd and created the /etc/imap.passwd file as anne:{plain}mypassword:1000:1000::/home/anne What have I missed? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)

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[Dovecot] special variables
by Andrés Pereira 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Are there any plans to extend the special variables you can use for ldap query strings (%u,%n,etc)? For instance, say you have an ldap schema like this with multiple domains in a single top-level-domain: dc=domain_1,dc=tld_1 dc=domain_2,dc=tld_1 dc=domain_3,dc=tld_1 dc=domain_4,dc=tld_2 dc=domain_5,dc=tld_2 dc=domain_6,dc=tld_2 Now dovecot (latest CVS snapshot) offers, among others, the following variable: %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there is no domain But, what if dovecot could offer something like this: %1-9 = domain tokens (%1 = tld, %2 = domain when %d = domain.tld) (actually, these variables are present in auth_ldap module for saslauthd) This way people could create a query like this (just an example): base = ou=some_ou,dc=%2,dc=%1 I know I could modify my ldap schema to: dc=domain_1.tld_1 dc=domain_2.tld_1 .... and it would be solved by using %d, however those "new" variables could be useful, what do you think? Cheers, - -- Andrés Pereira -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDxKDu7iUaNXa3Ta4RAitAAJ9oVoE51QjjSp6sQMe3qtkzwj9tygCcDfkj fnxUHKd/F6i9hjPoVDrHY18= =JdxG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] mbox assertion failure
by Timo Sirainen 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 18:56 +0000, Michael Stevens wrote: > Jan 8 18:53:12 saigo dovecot: imap(mstevens): file > mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion > failed: (start_pos < data_size) For everyone else too, attached patch fixes this.

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[Dovecot] Wild Idea for a feature
by Marc Perkel 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

OK - this is a wild idea and wondering what it would take to make it possible. I get a lot of email from a lot of different people about a lot of different issues. What I need is a way to do some server side presorting of email into specific folders. I can build a LOT of Mozilla rules but that is too cumbersome for what I have in mind. Here's what I'm thinking - one classification of email is "customers" and what I want to do is to drag an email into the customers server side folder and once I do that then any incoming email that comes from that person goes into the customers folder. I'm trying to envision how to code this and I think what I would need is if Dovecot were to create an external berkeley db file or mysql database of what is a list of email addresses contained in the folder that could be quickly searched for a match, that might do it. I think I could write a backent in Exim to handle it. This idea isn't yet well though out. I'm just throwing it out there to see if it's feasable. Thoughts?

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird, IDLE, mailbox not always SELECTed
by Tom Alsberg 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Hi there. Although it does not seem to be a Dovecot issue, I'm sending this here as people in this list may know better where exactly the problem is. I am working on Dovecot 1.0 (.alpha5, right now), with the aim that when Dovecot becomes stable we can put that into production. Recently after being more clear with the behaviour (I'm most into namespaces and mbox/maildir mixing issues, as you can see from my past messages), I have adopted a few (two, right now, with the third one gone) "Guinea-Pigs" to use the experimental IMAP server - people who very much want an IMAP service here and thus may help me test bugs. One of them reported, that he does not always see new mail. That user is using Mozilla Thunderbird (1.0.7). Looking a bit with him at the workings, I can see the issue. He has the IDLE extension enabled. However when sniffing the network, I see that sometimes when switching to another mailbox, the SELECT command is not always sent to the server. At the beginning, INBOX is (always) selected. Then another mailbox is selected, and usually a SELECT command is sent and the mailbox is seen. But going back to INBOX again, often no "SELECT INBOX" is seen on the wire. Then of course he sees no "EXISTS" or anything like that. I wonder if anyone else has observed this, or in some other way, that Thunderbird does not always show new mail. Sometimes it appears that a mailbox is selected in Thunderbird, and Thunderbird immediately (remembering from its cache) does a FETCH to show the message in the mailbox/folder, but not SELECT to update the folder itself. Can caching in Thunderbird be completely disabled, so that every action will be done against the server? Regards, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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[Dovecot] new 1.0 config and vpopmail
by Henti Smith 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

does anybody have a working config they can send me .. I just cannot seem to get this working. alternativly how can I set the debug so I can see where my config is wrong ? thanks Henti

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[Dovecot] dovecot auth using passwd-file
by Brad 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Im a dovecot newbie and need a little help with the passwd-like file auth mechanism in dovecot I got dovecot to work fine with regular /etc/passwd file auth .. so I wanted to start using another authentication store for virtual users. So .. I created a /etc/dovecot-passdb file and plopped in an encrypted password using md5crypt. Here are the appropriate lines from the dovecot.conf file auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot-passdb auth_passdb = pam and here is the /etc/pam.d/dovecot file #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth So far .. no dice. Dovecot reports constant authentication failures. I fear that the dovecot-passdb file is wonky. Can anyone give me any pointers ?

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[Dovecot] Maildir permissions, shared folders & postfix
by Stroller 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi there, It's my understanding that shared folders can be implemented in the Dovecot IMAP server by simply symlinking one maildir to another, eg: $ ls -lan /home/DOMAIN/ned/.maildir/ total 40 drwx------ 9 10012 10000 440 Jan 9 04:23 . drwxr-xr-x 3 10012 10000 160 Jan 6 06:32 .. drwx------ 5 10012 10000 264 Jan 9 04:21 .Deleted Items drwx------ 5 10012 10000 232 Jan 6 06:32 .Drafts drwx------ 5 10012 10000 232 Jan 6 06:39 .Junk E-mail drwx------ 5 10012 10000 264 Jan 9 04:33 .Sent lrwxrwxrwx 1 10012 0 24 Jan 6 07:36 .Stroller -> /home/ stroller/.maildir/ drwx------ 2 10012 10000 336 Jan 9 04:23 cur -rw------- 1 10012 10000 268 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 10012 10000 192 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 10012 10000 21504 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 10012 10000 1908 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index.log drwx------ 2 10012 10000 48 Jan 9 04:23 new -rw------- 1 10012 10000 47 Jan 6 07:45 subscriptions drwx------ 2 10012 10000 48 Jan 9 04:23 tmp In the above configuration the user Ned has a mailbox "Stroller", in which he can read messages & stuff - I can log in as ned and drag & drop messages into this mailbox quite happily. I thought all was well with this type of shared configuration until I actually started to try setting it up for the info(a)ourdomain.com mailbox, and tried delivering messages to it. It seems that Postfix doesn't respect the permissions of the parent folder when delivering mail into it: # ls -ldn /home/info/.maildir/ drwxrwx--- 5 10021 10000 120 Jan 9 04:26 /home/info/.maildir/ # ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/ total 0 drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:26 cur drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:33 new drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:31 tmp # ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/new total 0 # cat HungUp.txt | sendmail info # sudo ls -l /home/info/.maildir/new total 4 # sudo ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/new total 4 -rw------- 1 10021 10000 1806 Jan 9 04:39 1136781544.V4804I3606cM633316.mail.domain.local How inconsiderate of Postfix to set secure permissions on the message it delivered!! I need the message to have 660 permissions so that others in the group can read it! At present this causes Squirrelmail to squeal & give nasty messages whenever a shared mailbox is accesses. Can anyone advise me how to resolve this, please? Stroller. PS: should you consider suggesting using Dovecot's "namespaces" type of shared mailbox, I'd be grateful if you could answer this first: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2005-December/010459.html

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[Dovecot] POP3 only - why is cur/ growing?
by Wally Winchester 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi, I use Sarge's dovecot for a pop3 mail collection server. IMAP is not used at all. It works well, but I would like to know why one of the accounts also keeps a copy of all e-mail copies in the cur/ folder? Thanks a lot, Wally -- Wally Winchester wally_winchester(a)fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be

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Re: [Dovecot] mbox assertion failure
by Timo Sirainen 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 18:56 +0000, Michael Stevens wrote: > Hi. > > I'm running 1.0alpha5 on FreeBSD 5.3. I'm using mbox mailboxes. > > I keep getting: > > Jan 8 18:53:12 saigo dovecot: imap(mstevens): file > mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion > failed: (start_pos < data_size) > Jan 8 18:53:13 saigo dovecot: child 88663 (imap) killed with signal 6 This happens all the time with one specific mbox? Could you send it and the index files to me? You could put the mbox though http://dovecot.org/tools/mboxcrypt.pl

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[Dovecot] Running dovecot-lda
by Linus Nordberg 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hi, I'm planning on setting up dovecot with dovecot-lda, for sieve support. What does the list have to say about versions to use? I prefer stability over features but sieve has to be there. Does anybody use the combination dovecot 1.0 alpha5 and dovecot-lda 0.1 with success or would you recommend running -lda from CVS? If so, is there any point in time that's better than another? And, will dovecot 1.0 alpha5 do for -lda from CVS? Finally, are there any release plans for dovecot-lda that can be shared? Thanks, -- Linus

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:17 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > Timo Sirainen wrote .. > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:11 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > > > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > > .. > > > > From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18 > > > > > > How have you added the mails to the mailbox? Dovecot can't handle that > > > kind of a timestamp. > > > > Interesting... The dovecot 0.99 I was using was packaged with Mandriva. > Is it possible that they added support for that time stamp themselves? > My mailbox files get generated one of three ways: thunderbird, fetchmail, > and postfix. I used thunderbird to convert my Outlook files to mbox files, > and thats the one that I sent. Here is a sample timestamp from postfix: > > It worked with 0.99 only because Dovecot didn't check errors as well as > 1.0 does. So it just parsed those timestamps as being invalid, and set > the received-time of mails wrong. > > > > I suppose I could add support for it.. > > > > Unless you know of a conversion utility, I think that would be a good > idea. I don't want to edit thousands of emails for multiple users manually > in order to use dovecot. > > Dovecot's current CVS version supports that timestamp format. How do I compile the CVS version? "configure" seems to be missing. I tried downloading the snapshot from 20060105 but that fails make: ~ main.c:14:25: dict-client.h: No such file or directory main.c: In function `main_init': main.c:162: warning: implicit declaration of function `dict_client_register' main.c: In function `main_deinit': main.c:206: warning: implicit declaration of function `dict_client_unregister' make[3]: *** [main.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/imap' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 The 20060107 snapshot won't ./configure : configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-sql/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-auth/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-charset/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-dict/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-imap/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-index/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-mail/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-ntlm/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-settings/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/maildir/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/mbox/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/dbox/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/subscription-file/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/register/Makefile config.status: creating src/auth/Makefile config.status: error: cannot find input file: src/dict/Makefile.in [root@www dovecot-1.0.alpha5]# make cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status config.h config.status: creating config.h make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' Making all in lib make[3]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/lib' Makefile:423: .deps/base64.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:424: .deps/bsearch-insert-pos.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:425: .deps/buffer.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:426: .deps/compat.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:427: .deps/data-stack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:428: .deps/env-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:429: .deps/failures.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:430: .deps/fd-close-on-exec.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:431: .deps/fd-set-nonblock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:432: .deps/fdpass.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:433: .deps/file-cache.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:434: .deps/file-dotlock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:435: .deps/file-lock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:436: .deps/file-set-size.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:437: .deps/hash.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:438: .deps/hex-binary.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:439: .deps/hex-dec.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:440: .deps/hmac-md5.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:441: .deps/home-expand.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:442: .deps/hostpid.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:443: .deps/imem.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:444: .deps/ioloop-epoll.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:445: .deps/ioloop-kqueue.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:446: .deps/ioloop-notify-dn.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:447: .deps/ioloop-notify-inotify.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:448: .deps/ioloop-notify-kqueue.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:449: .deps/ioloop-notify-none.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:450: .deps/ioloop-poll.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:451: .deps/ioloop-select.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:452: .deps/ioloop.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:453: .deps/iostream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:454: .deps/istream-data.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:455: .deps/istream-file.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:456: .deps/istream-limit.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:457: .deps/istream-mmap.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:458: .deps/istream-seekable.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:459: .deps/istream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:460: .deps/lib-signals.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:461: .deps/lib.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:462: .deps/md4.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:463: .deps/md5.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:464: .deps/mempool-alloconly.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:465: .deps/mempool-datastack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:466: .deps/mempool-system.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:467: .deps/mempool-unsafe-datastack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:468: .deps/mempool.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:469: .deps/mkdir-parents.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:470: .deps/mmap-anon.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:471: .deps/mmap-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:472: .deps/module-dir.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:473: .deps/network.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:474: .deps/ostream-crlf.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:475: .deps/ostream-file.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:476: .deps/ostream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:477: .deps/primes.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:478: .deps/printf-upper-bound.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:479: .deps/process-title.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:480: .deps/randgen.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:481: .deps/read-full.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:482: .deps/restrict-access.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:483: .deps/restrict-process-size.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:484: .deps/safe-memset.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:485: .deps/safe-mkdir.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:486: .deps/sendfile-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:487: .deps/seq-range-array.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:488: .deps/sha1.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:489: .deps/str-sanitize.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:490: .deps/str.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:491: .deps/strescape.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:492: .deps/strfuncs.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:493: .deps/unix-socket-create.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:494: .deps/unlink-directory.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:495: .deps/unlink-lockfiles.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:496: .deps/utc-mktime.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:497: .deps/utc-offset.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:498: .deps/var-expand.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:499: .deps/write-full.Po: No such file or directory make[3]: *** No rule to make target `.deps/write-full.Po'. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/lib' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 It seems like the code is horribly broken. All of the nightly snapshots except for 20060107 (which won't configure) fail with "main.c:14:25: dict-client.h: No such file or directory" it does this for src/imap/main.c AND src/pop3/main.c . I tried commenting out any lines that had to do with "dict-client.h" "dict_client_register();" and "dict_client_unregister();" inside the two files and it would compile those files but it would fail in src/deliver claiming that it is too old? make[3]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/deliver' ~ deliver.c:4:2: #error This program is somewhat out of date, use dovecot-lda instead make[3]: *** [deliver.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/deliver' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 Harout Hedeshian

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[Dovecot] Documentation updates in Wiki
by Timo Sirainen 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

I started writing a new front page for wiki.dovecot.org: http://wiki.dovecot.org/NewIndex This is partially based on the comments in Documentation thread starting from here: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-July/008076.html "A simple Dovecot installation" section is pretty much finished from my point of view. I hope it's clear enough for anyone wanting to install a working Dovecot server. Suggestions are welcome of course. You're also welcome to just edit the pages directly. I'll get email notifications of all page changes, so if I see changes that I don't think belong in there, I'll just remove them and maybe move them elsewhere (so don't add too much text without asking :). I'm not sure about what exactly should be visible in the front page. Currently there's probably too much. But I think it's better to show more than too little, so that new people can just look at the page and quickly pick up the interesting keywords without having to click through multiple pages. Maybe most of the sub-sections in "full guide" section could be listed only under those root sections. So that it becomes something like: * Starting guidelines * Authentication configuration * Mail configuration * Namespaces * Shared folders * SSL * POP3 * Dovecot LDA * Full configuration file reference * Examples / Scenarios I'd leave namespaces and shared folders there so that they can be easily found. I'm not sure where to put "full configuration file reference" or what exactly to call it. The same goes for Examples/Scenarios. Tuning should maybe be only part of "full guide". "Generic information about mail servers" is meant for discussion of mail server components, protocols, etc. without being too much Dovecot-specific. It's partially for "mail server newbies", but also would contain some "hard core" information about how things really work (mailbox format and user authentication especially). Anyway, if you have time please start adding the missing pages and writing to them. Even if you only give a FIXME-list that others can then fill out :) My school starts again at monday, and I'll be too busy to do anything else than that and work for the rest of January (after that only finals, yay).

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[Dovecot] fastbind patch -> auth_bind_userdn patch (attached)
by Geff 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Let me know how you like this one. This assumes one config parameter. The non-null of auth_bind_userdn overrides auth_bind = yes. I'm using this patch now on cvs head. Comments are always welcome. Thanks much, Geff

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[Dovecot] Questions regarding quota
by Stian Jordet 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi, I have some trouble trying to test the quota plugin. First off all, it says in the wiki: "Dovecot 1.0 supports quota using a quota plugin. It's currently discussed in Dovecot LDA page and it supports only very simple quota calculation which is suitable only for mboxes. Maildir++ quota support will come later." Does that mean that it won't work at all with Maildir++, or just that it's slow? Second; there are two plugins? One in src/plugins/quota and one ine src/plugins/imap-quota. What's the difference? Is one for imap-quota and the other for fs-quota? (I would love that!) But third and most importantly; I can't get it too work. I'm using CVS from tonight (which fixed the missing symbol bug). But neither when I'm using static userdb nor LDAP as explained in the wiki I can't get it to work. I'm not really sure of the getquota syntax, but whatever I try, I get: a OK No quota. So please, enlighten me! :) Best regards, Stian

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

I am resending this because I have not gotten a response in a few days. Help is appreciated! Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 17:50 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > I recently upgraded from dovecot 0.9x to 1.0.5-Aplha and now when ever > folders are opened (in IMAP), it keeps saying invalid mbox files. It worked > fine in 0.99.x. It is detecting the right mbox files because it lists the > folders and the subscriptions correctly. I am using "default_mail_env > = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" in the config file, but I get the same > error with "Detect automatically". It generates nothing in the log files > so I am lost!! I tried both outlook and thunderbird but same results. > > Invalid mbox file error comes only if the first line of the mbox file > isn't valid. What does it look like? It should be something like: > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > 0.99.x Dovecot didn't accept broken From-lines either, but it might have > had slightly different logic in checking what's valid and what's not. Here is a sample file generated by postfix. Note: it is NOT censored or edited. What you see is the real thing. >From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18^M Return-Path: <List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> Received: from mail.fuelcellstore.com ([207.174.23.2]) by rwcrgwc55.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020406013417.LNRM3313.rwcrgwc55.attbi.com(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> for <haroutetoot(a)attbi.com>; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 01:34:17 +0000 Received: from saa01.saleebaadams.com.au [203.59.141.98] by mail.revealmail.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.06) id A64E1BA01F8; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 17:50:22 -0700 Received: from saa01.saleebaadams.com.au (10.0.0.13 [10.0.0.13]) by saa01.saleebaadams.com.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id 1KDV523W; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:45:25 +0800 Received: by saa01.saleebaadams.com.au (Microsoft Exchange Connector for POP3 Mailboxes 4.50.2113) with SMTP (Global POP3 Download) id MSG04062002-084518-2751.MMD@SAA01; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:45:18 +0800 Return-Path: <List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> Delivered-To: saa(a)iinet.net.au Received: (qmail 28777 invoked by uid 666); 6 Apr 2002 00:24:40 -0000 Delivered-To: saa-saleebaadamscomau-n.juniper(a)saleebaadams.com.au X-Envelope-To: <n.juniper(a)saleebaadams.com.au> Received: (qmail 28767 invoked by uid 666); 6 Apr 2002 00:24:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.fuelcellstore.com) (207.174.23.2) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 6 Apr 2002 00:24:39 -0000 Received: from mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.48] by mail.revealmail.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.06) id AD4D1690192; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 17:11:57 -0700 Received: from jason ([12.81.167.50]) by mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020406001120.RBFM8815.mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net@jason>; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 00:11:20 +0000 Reply-To: fuelcell(a)fuelcellstore.com From: "fuelcell" <fuelcell(a)fuelcellstore.com> To: list(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Subject: FuelCellStore.com Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:11:08 -0700 Message-ID: <001d01c1dcff$8f6c5fa0$cacbfea9@jason> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal X-Sender: List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Precedence: bulk Sender: List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-IMAPbase: 1135543792 1 Status: O X-UID: 1 Content-Length: 150475 X-Keywords: Dear Fuel Cell Enthusiast,^M ^M FuelCellStore.com would like to tell you about several new fuel cell products and our redesigned website. ^M ^M * ^M One of which is the new 500W unit that is available for residential back up power, or remote low power primary needs. These units can be stacked up to 1500W and self-starts upon grid failure ~V provi ding critical power for nominal apparatus and remote applications. You will find a link to this product at www.fuelcellstore.com^M * ^M Bench Top Methanol Reformer capable of generating ultra-pure hydrogen from methanol and water for University and Research Labs. Please reply for more information. ^M * ^M A fuel cell powered remote control car with metal hydride storage. ^M ^M FuelCellStore.com has many new educational products and a new nav bar to help you find the products you are looking for. Please check out our Student and Teacher section at www.fuelcellstore.com/products.htm l^M Please let us know what you think of the new site structure and any feedback would be great. ^M ^M You have received this message because you have contacted fuelcellstore.com in the past and asked to receive FuelCellStore.com news. If you would like to unsubscribe from our mailing please reply to this mes sage with unsubscribe in the subject heading. ^M ^M Sincerely,^M ^M FuelCellStore.com^M PO Box 4038^M Boulder, CO 80306-4038^M Harout Hedeshian harout(a)hedeshian.net 720 - 261 - 3548

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:17 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > Timo Sirainen wrote .. > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:11 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > > > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > > .. > > > > From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18 > > > > > > How have you added the mails to the mailbox? Dovecot can't handle that > > > kind of a timestamp. > > > > Interesting... The dovecot 0.99 I was using was packaged with Mandriva. > Is it possible that they added support for that time stamp themselves? > My mailbox files get generated one of three ways: thunderbird, fetchmail, > and postfix. I used thunderbird to convert my Outlook files to mbox files, > and thats the one that I sent. Here is a sample timestamp from postfix: > > It worked with 0.99 only because Dovecot didn't check errors as well as > 1.0 does. So it just parsed those timestamps as being invalid, and set > the received-time of mails wrong. > > > > I suppose I could add support for it.. > > > > Unless you know of a conversion utility, I think that would be a good > idea. I don't want to edit thousands of emails for multiple users manually > in order to use dovecot. > > Dovecot's current CVS version supports that timestamp format. Okay. Thanks. I will try getting the CVS version. Harout Hedeshian

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[Dovecot] Passwd file location
by Tracy Phillips 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi, I am trying to access my passwd file like this: passdb passwd-file { args = /usr/local/etc/vmail/%d/passwd } Is that not possible. I keep getting an error when trying to login. I do not get much in my log files to help me debug it. Thanks, Tracy

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